listomatic: new wave

[by best, I mean the songs that made me get off my ass and dance instead of sitting there in the club looking all glum and goth and apathetic]

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Flock Of Seagulls - Telecommunication

Flash & The Pan - Hey, St. Peter

Jam - Start!

Motors - Love and Lonliness

Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

Squeeze - Up The Junction

Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You

Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirt

Reflex - Politics of Dancing

Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

Jona Lewie- (You’ll Always Find Me In The) Kitchen At Parties

Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven

Pete Shelley - Homosapien

Q-Feel - Dancing in Heaven

Polecats - Make A Circuit With Me

Tim Scott - Swear

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

APB - One Day

Shriekback - Nemesis

Ministry - I Wanted to Tell Her

I can tell you, from memory, that when I danced to these songs I was mostly likely wearing a black/cobalt blue miniskirt with some kind of shiny, pleather belt; torn, black stockings; a punk rock band t-shirt, nearly ripped to shreds; spiked up hair. Shoes had been kicked off much earlier in the night. Let's just say I'm glad no one ever thought of bringing a camera to Spit!, our new wave club of choice on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays (the other days it was a disco, Uncle Sam's). Huge dance floor, enormous bar - they also had a lot of shows there. I remember seeing Men at Work and Madness there. I'm sure there were others, maybe APB. Around this time I also saw U2 at a small night club on the island, and The Fixx at a roller rink!

The first songs that came into my head upon viewing this post were the Waitresses' "I Know What Boys Like" and Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" (what can I say -- always been a sucker for bands with a sax player...)

You can tell by this list that I basically was a slave to whatever was in the W-LIR rotation. But I haven't bought any of it until recently (it's that nostalgia thing kicking in). Mostly at the time I bought Clash and Pink Floyd...

Great station. Played a smattering of Clash and other Punk in addition to New Wave. Then it turned into something else that rather sucked (I forgot the call letters), and now I see by the website that it's back to WLIR again, although on a different frequency (I'm in New England, now). Same outfit?